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I. I. AND F. W. MICHELS.

' CAR HEPLACER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 24| 191 9.

1 ,3 1 5, 5 6 6 Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

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1.1. AND F. w. MICHELS.

CAR REPLACER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24. ms.

1,315,566. PatehtedSept. 9, 1919.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH b0, WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNITED sTATns PATENT QFFIQE,

JO SEPI-IJ. M ICI-I E L S, SYRACUSE, AND FRANK W. MICHELS, OF EAST SYRACUSE,

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Specification of, Letters Eatent.

Patented Sept. 9 1919.

Application filed May 24, 1919, Serial 1X9. 2295 29,.

To all whomz't may concern: 7

Be it known that we, Josnrrr J. Mronnris and FRANKWV. MIoI-mns, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Syracuse, New York, and East Syracuse, New York, in the county of Onondaga,i11 the State ef New York, have invented new and useful Imlorovements in Car-Replacers, of which the'following, taken in connection with theacconipanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in car replacers and it is adapted to be used more particularly" for replacing street or surface cars on tracks which are substantially flush withthe surface of the pavement as in cities and other more or less congested districts where artificial pave ments are most common.

The main object is to provide cooperative car replacing devices capable'of being placed flatwise upon the pavement close to the displaced wheels, irrespective of the relation or proximity of said wheels to the rails upon which they are adapted to travel, and to provide said replacers with spurs or equivalent devices, capable of embedding themselves into the pavement or, if necessary, into the rails under the load or weight of the car riding thereon under any propelling power so that if the displaced wheels are more or less remote fromtheir rails they may gradually worked up to the rails by repeated use of the replacers until brought into substantially close proximity to said rails to allow the wheels tobe replaced directly upon the track.

Another object, in the use of the cooperative devices or replacers, is to enable one of them to be used for crowding the displaced portion of the car toward the rails as the car is propelled upon both the replacers and to utilize the other replacers for alining up the wheels with their respective rtils, it being understood that both devices are provided with elevated ribs or supplemental rails for elevating the flanges of the wheelsfroni the ball of the rail as the car is propelled toward the track.

Other objects and uses relating to specific parts of the replacing devices will be brought out in the following descriptibnl In the drawings- Figure 1 is a top plan of portions of a axles of saidtruckb eingshewn dotted a of tlie same traclrand replacers in bp'eratiye position shewing lse'one of the axlesa 1 1d its wheels in operative position r61 replacemeht upon the track; the central portion the axle intervenihg phrtionf or, the malnent between the railsbeing broken Figs. 3 and 4t are perspective views of the care aliningreplacei" section and the cooperative 'guidese ction respectively.

Fig. is a perspective view ofIainodified ferinof alining section in whicha channel and switch point are substituted for tlie sup plemental rib or rail of the replacer.

In order that .our invention may be fully understood we have shew nthe rails as of asurface railway trackinwhich the balls of the railare substantially'fiush with the surface offthe javelnent as andadapted to receive tie wheels as -C of their car aXle0 The replacer comprises cooperative Sections 1 and 2 which be termed respectively,the thrust seetioir'and the alining section for the reason that the section -l-servs to thrust wheels and axle axially while the sectionf-2,jserv es to aliiiethewheels with their respeetiye rails. As illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, each section comprises a relatively broadflat'plate or base 3 having" a central" lengthwise raised rib 4 oh its upper facev ireferably ment a; sufl icient distance to harry their are preferably tapered frorntheir rear ends base plates being flat except that they are provided with hardened steel spurs 5 at base plates to form what may be termed leads 6 and 7-, the lower faces of which are disposed at substantially the same fiat plane as the bottom of the base plates 3 while their upper faces are inclined longitudinally in opposite directions as clearly shown in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, to

enable the car to ride more easily upon and from the replacer sections. For a similar reason the front and rear ends of the thrust section -1- are beveled to allow the flange of the wheel to ride more easily upon and from the same.

The opposite sides of the'rib f of the thrust section -1- are preferably parallel and straight from end to end'while the opposite sides of the front end of lead ;7-

of the section 2- are flared along curved widthas that of the section 1.

.ject in flaring or curving the opposite sides lines, the remaining sides of the same rib being parallel and of substantially the same The 0b.

of the front end of the section 2 is to permit the plates to be reversed side for side in opposite side of the track from that shown,

case the car displacement should be at the the active: curved side of the lead .7 being usually arranged tangential or nearly so to the inner side ofthe'ball of the rail so that the flange of the adjacent car wheel will be deflected until alinement with its rail as the ear is moved along the replacers, 7 7 thereby eflecting a similar alinement of the opposite wheel through the medium connecting axle -c-I. V

In operation after the car has been brought into'sufiiciently close proximity to the rails byrepeated use of the replacers to of the enable it to' 'befinally replaced upon the track, the replacers are positioned as shown in Fig. l so'thatthefront lead 7' of the 7 sectioni le willbedirectly.over the ball of thelcorres'ponding rail while the'section will be placed so that the tangent; point of the inner curved side of its'front lead 7 will be nearly directly opposite the front load of the section *1j,

while thecorrespondingfront end of the same side'of the lead 7 of the section -2 will be alined with the inner side of the corresponding ball of the rail -a Under these conditions it is evident that rides upon the rib l. of the corresponding section 1, the inner flange will ride against the face of said rib which in turn will thrust the wheels of the axles 0 endwise to the left as the car is moved forwardly, at which time the left hand car wheel will have moved upon and along the rib -4 of the section *2 and by the time the right hand wheel reaches the front end of the lead 7 of the section -l the left hand wheel will begin to ride against the inner curved side of the lead 7 of the section 2-, these two operations serving not only to position the wheels directly over their respective tracks but will also aline them therewith and cause them to ride upon their respective rails when they leave the'leads -7.

In Fig. 5 we have shown a modified form of alining section 2 as provided with a pair of lengthwise ribs -l-. in trans versely spaced relation to form an intervening groove 8 for receiving the flange of the wheel, the front end of the groove being gradually enlarged or flared to receive a switch point 9 which is pivoted at its front end at -10 to enable its rear end to be moved laterally for guiding the wheel on to the rail, the position of the point depending upon the side ofthe track to which the car is displaced and at which the replacer is positioned. Otherwise the construction is similar to that previously described for the section 2-.

-VVl1at we claim is A car replacer comprising a thrust section and an alining section, the thrust section being adapted to be placed in proximity to one of the rails and the alining section in proximity to the opposite rail, each section being provided with a substantially flat and relatively broad base plate and a central lengthwise rib rising from the upper surface thereof, the opposite sides of the thrust section being substantially parallel from end to end while the front end of the rib of the alining section is flared laterally and forwardly.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 7th day of May, 1919.

JOSEPH J. MICHELS. FRANK W. MICHELS. WVitnesses H. E. CHAsn, N. 'Roo'r.

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